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    due to the relative similarity between the Sámi languages and Finnish. When biological anthropology was developed in the 19th century, Sámi were seen...
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    The Sámi (/ˈsɑːmi/ SAH-mee; also spelled Sami or Saami) are the traditionally Sámi-speaking Indigenous peoples inhabiting the region of Sápmi, which today...
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    symbols. The Sámi languages (/ˈsɑːmi/ SAH-mee), also rendered in English as Sami and Saami, are a group of Uralic languages spoken by the Indigenous Sámi peoples...
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    names, such as Nuuksio on the south coast of Finland, have been claimed to prove former Sámi settlement. However, the Sámi people increasingly mixed with...
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    Northern Sámi or North Sámi (English: /ˈsɑːmi/ SAH-mee; Northern Sami: davvisámegiella [ˈtavːiːˌsaːmeˌkie̯lːa]; Finnish: pohjoissaame [ˈpohjoi̯ˌsːɑːme];...
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    Southern or South Sámi (Southern Sami: åarjelsaemien gïele; Norwegian: sørsamisk; Swedish: sydsamiska) is the southwesternmost of the Sámi languages, and...
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    throughout the later half of the 1800s. The opportunity to use Sámi language as part of the education became more and more limited. Around 1870, the Sámi became...
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    Sápmi (redirect from Sámi native region)
    The word "Sámi" is the accusative-genitive form of the noun "Sápmi"—making the name's (Sámi olbmot) meaning "people of Sápmi". The origin of the word is...
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  • English words of Sámi origin are relatively rare, having usually entered the English language via some other language. Some words specific to the Arctic environment...
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    The Sámi flag is the flag of Sápmi and the Sámi people, one of the Indigenous people groups of the Nordic countries and the Kola Peninsula of the Russian...
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